Shoe rack



Filed Nov. 2G, 1923 ation/mq.

Patented Feb. 10, 1925.

GLEN A. AIKEN, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE RACK.

Application filed November 20, 1923. Serial No. 675,882.

[o all who/nt t may conce/m:

Be it known that I, GLEN A. AiknN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny, State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ShoeRacks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in racks and moreparticularly to that type designed for supporting shoes and the like.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a device ofthis character which will properly and neatly support shoes and the likein a closet or elsewhere in a home by being attached to a wall or door,the advantages of such a device for supporting articles of this nature,over keeping them on the floor, being obvious.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which, while so constructed as to reduce the cost ofmanufacture to a minimum, will, nevertheless, prove thoroughly strong,durable and practical.

With these and other objects in view, as will become more apparent asthe description proceeds, the invention resides in a novel constructionand arrangement of parts, a preferred embodiment of which is shown inthe accompanying drawing, wherein- Figure 1, is a view, in elevation, ofa shoe rack constructed in accordance with the present invention, and,

Fig. 2, is a view taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 designates a pairof side arms or brackets, each of which is formed from a single lengthof material, and each of which includes an approximately hori- Zontalportion 11 and the outwardly and downwardly curved portion 12. The freeend of each of the approximately horizontalportions 11 is turnedangularly at 13 and provided with nail or screw receiving openings 14,whereby the bracket may be attached to a wall, door or the like. Inaddition to the attaching portion 13, this end is also formed with astruck out tongue 15, which is extended in the same plane as the portion13, but in the opposite direction for the purpose of engaging the wallto prevent downward rocking movement of the bracket.

Secured to and connecting the free ends of the curved portions 12, is abar or rod 16, which, in the operation of the device, is arranged toreceive the sples of the shoes or the like thereagainst. Secured to andconnecting the inner ends of the curved portions 12, immediatelyadjacent the junction with the approximately horizontal portions 11, isa heel engaging rod or bar 17.

It will be noted that the bar 17 is disposed 70 with its major portionin an approximately vertical plane and that the ends of the bar aretwisted out of the plane of the major portion thereof, so that they maylie flatly against the lower faces of the portions 12. The ends of thebar 16 are also secured to and lie flat against the inner faces of theportions 12, while that portion of the bar intermediate the brackets istwisted at an oblique angle. The ends of the bars 16 and 30 17 aresecured to the brackets by any desirable means, or method, that ofwelding being preferred.

It will be understood that the shoe or the like to be supported areplaced so that their g5 heels engage the bar 17, while the soles thereofrest against the bar 16.

What is claimed is:

1. As an article of manufact-ure, a shoe rack comprising a pair oflongitudinally bowed side arms, each being formed from a single lengthof material and having a horizontal portion, the free end of which isformed with an upwardly deflected attaching ear and a downwardlyprojecting supporting tongue in alignment with said ear, and a pair ofsupporting bars extending bctween and connecting the said arms.

2. As an article of manufacture, a slice rack comprising a pair oflongitudinally bowed side arms, each being formed from extending betweenand connecting the arms 10 a single length of material and having aimmediately adjacent the said horizontal horizontal port-ion, the freeend of which is portions.

formed with an upwardly deflected attach- In testimony whereof, I aIiXmy signaing ear positioned at substantially right ture, in the presenceof two witnesses.

angles thereto and a downwardly projecting GLEN A. AIKEN. supportingtongue iii alignment with said Witnesses: ear, a bar extending betweenand connecting J. R. RoYsToN,

the plain ends of the arms and a second bar Jos. H. BEVERKLY.

